“The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry Island and the moonlit veranda, and gingham on the golf-links and the dry sun and the goldContinue reading “RKS American Literature: An Elusive Love Lost Forever (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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RKS Singaporean Film: “Ah Girl”: A Pediatric Point of View of Neglect and Abuse
We are familiar with the deleterious effects on children of parents undergoing separation and or divorce. Psychiatric points of view. Views of “victims”. Having done a spot of family law in the distant past I have witnessed squabbling hatreds creating mentally damaged children. In “Ah Girl” (Ong Xuan Jing) copes the best she can withContinue reading “RKS Singaporean Film: “Ah Girl”: A Pediatric Point of View of Neglect and Abuse”
RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): The American Author’s First Day in Her Athenian Apartment: A Welcoming Plate of Pastries from Neighbour
I look down at the plate-I have never seen any confections in these shapes before, and I can’t anticipate the flavour of any of them. There is one in quadrants like a pastry kite, another like a ridged sausage, another like a piece of fried lace. I might as well be living on the moon.Continue reading “RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): The American Author’s First Day in Her Athenian Apartment: A Welcoming Plate of Pastries from Neighbour”
RKS POLISH Literature: Polish Peasant Lust (Władysław Reymont)
They shot glances at each other constantly, eyes shining like scorching forks of mute lightning, while their lips dashed against each other with the force of thunderbolts and with such hungry, ravenous passion they reeled in stupor, gasping for breath, a wonder that their hearts didn’t burst. The ground caved beneath their feet, they fellContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Polish Peasant Lust (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Bear Tamer Arrives in the Polish Peasant Village (Władysław Reymont)
The bear-tamer praised God in greeting, then crowed like a cockerel, bleated like a sheep, neighed like a fiery stallion and proclaimed: ‘Bear-tamers are we from a distant land, across the wide sea, from beyond the great forest. Where people walk upside down, where fences are made of sausages and where they cool themselves byContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: The Bear Tamer Arrives in the Polish Peasant Village (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Poverty, Hunger, Neglect but Betrayal! (Władysław Reymont)
It was not the poverty or the neglect, the frequent hunger, so that there was barely enough for the children. Nor was it that Antek sat drinking in the inn with his chums, caring nothing for home, sneaking into the cottage like a stray dog and reaching for his stick at any hint of reproach.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Poverty, Hunger, Neglect but Betrayal! (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Iron Grip of Necessity (Władysław Reymont)
True, when necessity gets a hold on you, there is no slipping out of its grasp, my friend, oh no! Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909
RKS French Wine: A Cour-Cheverny from the Loire
This is a first for me a Cour-Cheverny from the Loire in France. The area has a long winemaking history. Its wine is made with the white Romorantin grape which only produces white wines, dry or sweet, obtained after long fermentations. Cour-Cheverny received appellation status in 1993. The first Romorantin vineyards date back to theContinue reading “RKS French Wine: A Cour-Cheverny from the Loire”
Greek 2026 Travel Adventure REPORT CARD
AIRLINES Air Canada: very good Sky Express: fail AIRPORTS Toronto Pearson: excellent Samos Aristarchos International Airport: excellent Thessaloniki Airport “Makedonia”: excellent Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”: poor HOTELS Sofitel Athens Airport Hotel: very good Anthology of Athens: very good Daios Luxury Living (Thessaloniki): excellent Doryssa Seaside Resort (Samos): good Kastalia Boutique Hotel (Delphi); good AnantiContinue reading “Greek 2026 Travel Adventure REPORT CARD”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:Good-Bye Greece: Unpleasant Arriving and Unpleasant Leaving!
Woke up and packed up for the last time on this vacation. Becoming weary of this pack and unpack. I see the theoretical attraction to cruising. No incessant packing and unpacking. Perhaps the sole advantage to travelling in seven story floating hotels except of course for the incessant buffets! Bring on obesity! I hear theContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:Good-Bye Greece: Unpleasant Arriving and Unpleasant Leaving!”
